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I'm the crazy singing woman in a red Honda

It's too late and I'm too tired, but after tomorrow I probably will be using all my writing time doing this NaNoWriMo challenge, so I better post now.

I listened to this song over and over and over again on the way to work. I blared it loudly and sang just as loudly with my hand stretched out into the crisp fall air. I paused it at one point and just shouted over and over again, as loud as I could:

For all your goodness I will keep on singing

For all YOUR goodness I will keep on singing

For ALL your goodness I will keep on singing

For all your GOODNESS I will keep on singing...

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

I'm sure someone saw me and thought I was crazy. That's ok. I was arguing with my soul. I was charging my soul, "Bless the LORD oh my soul! Bless the Lord!" I held my hand against my gut and said those words loudly to my LORD in defiance of my wavering soul. I was saying, "It's because you're good that I'll keep on singing. Not because I'm good will I keep on singing. Or because people are good. Not because I'm bad will I stop singing. Or because people are bad. But for all YOUR goodness, because you're so good, I will keep on singing."

There is a good God. He is good.

You're rich in love and you're slow to angerYour name is great and your heart is kindFor all your goodness i will keep on singing10,000 reasons for my heart to findBless the lord oh my soul -Matt Redman

About Me

a little bit about me

HI! I'm Sheila, a 40-something woman caught up in the wonder that I am Christ's and he is mine.

I write here about my daily life and thoughts I have on various subjects related to marriage, motherhood and the real life struggles of walking by faith in Christ.

I'm a slow-to-believe, believer. Most frequent prayer: I believe, help my unbelief!

I'm a One Peter Three wife (a way of saying I'm trying to win my husband to Christ) and a Timothy mom (a way of saying I'm trying to lead my sons to Christ by my life and the scriptures while in a 1 Peter 3 Marriage). I'm raising two polar opposite boys- now 12 and 14- to be men.

I think better when I write. I've kept a journal since I was 9 and started blogging 9 years ago. I'm curious and contemplative and easily distracted. I gaze into the heavens and the Heaven-Maker's words, remember the hard things, fight depression, and long for home and King.

I'm also a registered nurse, a soap maker and wanna be homesteader in suburbia. I feel at home with the smell of alfalfa. I crave God's word. I chew on it all day long.